People fear ASICs for centralizing mining and making a cryptocurrency more valuable attack. These concerns ignore the economic incentives to miners.
A lot of people argue that the failure of Segwit 2X is evidence that BTC can’t be hardforked. That may be the case, or it could be evidence of something else.
There is a widespread negative perception of Bitcoin Cash. That is a negative, but it actually improves the picture of BCH as an investment.
There is a powerful network effect with money, but the low switching costs of cryptocurrency introduce some new dynamics that we would not see in history.
At some point in the next two years, institutional money will flood into cryptocurrency, treating it as an asset class and investing in all top coins, instead of individual projects. That will create some incredibly bad and incredibly good investment opportunities.
There are lot’s of cool things being built on BCH, but here are five favorites.
The title says it all.
Some thoughts on the 1MB block size limit on BTC.
What if you could program ownership of content.
Notes on Proof of Work and The Nature of The Firm by Craig Wright
Again, the title says it all.
The economics of opening and closing channels on the lightning network don’t make sense.
Proof of stake will naturally evolve into an oligopoly.
Even If You Love Btc, Bitcoin Cash Is Better Than the Lightning Network
It is easier (and safer) to buy BCH and spend it, than to open channels and use lightning network.
A way to solve for trust with fewer nodes.
It is valid to question whether BTC or BCH is bitcoin.
Don’t Let Crypto-FOMO Ruin the Revolution (yours.org post)
Remembering that the emergence of a better money is spectacular and not letting stress about investment gains and losses, take away from the enjoyment of that.
Technical analysis is dumb.
CRYPTOKITTIES!
How prediction markets help create better culture.
Cryptocurrency is the most liberating technology the world has ever seen. But, if you live a middle-class life in a developed country, the world-changing power might not be clear at first glance.
What is the most important part of Bitcoin.
Don’t let the day to day turmoil of cryptocurrency distract you from the big picture.
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